Picking the Right Shaft

Hey I’m Errol inside the Profectus Golf studio. Stick with us and I’m going to tell you how to pick out the best driver shaft for your swing. Look at all these shafts on the wall. How are you ever supposed to pick out the right one for your swing? Most people just go into a golf shop, grab a club, and wiggle it around and decide is that stiff enough or if is not. There’s a better way to go about things. You should use some rationale to decide what type of shaft you need. First let me show you how a shaft actually behaves. Most people get it wrong. Most people think that when you make your downswing the shaft is in lag or deflection. Like this. Taking loft off and delivering this really powerful blow where it goes from bowed to hitting the
ball and giving you a bunch of extra distance. Actually the opposite is happening. When you swing down, the club is actually in lead lag or deflection. Like this. Adding loft and usually spin. So depending on how you load the shaft and how fast you swing that really tells us what shaft is right for you. So I’ve got two shafts here that are on totally different end of the spectrum. one is a Fujikura A flex . It’s really flexible. Something that might go into a slower speed player or someone trying to hit it higher.Then there’s a hazardous 6.5. Really boardy, really stiff usually launches it lower and takes spin off and those two things are related. So remember if the flexible shaft does this it adds more loft and more spin. That’s what I’d go to if I was trying to do that with a player who swung slower or needed to hit it higher you might go into a more flexible shaft. If a person swings faster and the shaft tends to kick a whole lot and hit it too high and has too much spin you go into a stiffer, like X flex shaft and now even though the club head wants to do this the stiff flex keeps it from doing it. Lower launch. Lower spin. Better ball flights. And that’s how we pick out shafts amongst all these options.